Scouting the OwlsFinal exams all week, with a flight to Hawaii scheduled for Sunday — Saturday’s game against unheralded Kennesaw State is the ultimate trap game for WMU. Making the Owls more dangerous, this little-known program from the Atlantic Sun Conference isn’t a bad team, but it’s an unconventional one.

Kennesaw State will junk up every kind of defense imaginable, with enough athletes to make the Broncos uncomfortable. Offensively, the Owls like to drive it and their bigs (though they don’t get that big) can shoot, so if WMU is sluggish with its mind on paradise, this won’t be easy.

The most interesting result of Kennesaw State’s season so far was its 75-70 overtime loss at Belmont, which won at Eastern Illinois by 33 points. The Broncos won at EIU by 11.

PredictionThis is a test of maturity for WMU. It’s at home and it’s the better squad. But it’s not that much better that it can just show up and sleepwalk to a win before boarding a plane for the more-anticipated Diamond Head Classic next week.

The Broncos showed signs of that maturity at Eastern Illinois. They’ll have enough of it to get back to .500.